A history of the American nation . timore and Ohiorvxid. July 4. 1S2S. work was actually begun, the tirst act beingdone by Charles Carroll of Can\>llton. the only living signerof the Declaration of Independence. He is said to have ei- PARTY REORGANIZATION 285 claimed: *I consider this among the most important acts of mylife, second only to that of signing the Dechiration of Inde-pendence, if second to that . Two years later a short sectionof this road was op»^ned for tratVic. In South Carolina, too, aroad was built running from Charleston to Hamburg, and iniS^^^^ this road was one hundred a
A history of the American nation . timore and Ohiorvxid. July 4. 1S2S. work was actually begun, the tirst act beingdone by Charles Carroll of Can\>llton. the only living signerof the Declaration of Independence. He is said to have ei- PARTY REORGANIZATION 285 claimed: *I consider this among the most important acts of mylife, second only to that of signing the Dechiration of Inde-pendence, if second to that . Two years later a short sectionof this road was op»^ned for tratVic. In South Carolina, too, aroad was built running from Charleston to Hamburg, and iniS^^^^ this road was one hundred and thirty-five miles in length,then the longest road in the world. In 1S40 there were two thousand eight hundred and eighteenmiles of railroad in operation, and as the years went by themikwge increased. But no one in those early years could foreseethe immense development of railroads, and the great changesthev were to make in the life of the nation. The tirst lines con-nected neighboring cities, or furnished outlets ivom the coal.
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